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Francis: A Life in Songs by Ann Wroe
RRP: £16.99£12.28**LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019****SHORTLISTED FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARDS 2019**A life of St Francis in verseThroughout her career Ann Wroe has constantly confounded expectations, following her own unique path. Now, in Francis,... -
Of Sea by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 9781908058829
RRP: £9.99£6.99A remarkable new book in praise of marine fauna. Of Sea takes the form of a poetic bestiary of creatures living beneath, beside and above the water: in wetlands, salt marshes and the intertidal zone. In a sequence of 46 poems, Burnett captures the... -
Sleepers Awake by Oli Hazzard 9781800172999
RRP: £12.99£8.94Oli Hazzard's third collection emerges from the daily disarray of care and work, nature and technology. Its ambitious, formally various poems extract 'the ore / from boredom', as memory-personal, familial, social, historical-and the collective memory of... -
The Grid by Eli Payne Mandel 9781800173293
RRP: £12.99£8.94Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize 2024. Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024. A The Telegraph Book of the Year. The Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month August 2023. The Grid is about the end of worlds, ancient... -
Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: £14.99£10.95'So my mind sinks in this immensity:and foundering is sweet in such a sea'Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, this extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for his ideas, feelings and deepest preoccupations. It encompasses... -
Art of Love by Ovid
RRP: £24.95£23.39Seductive verse.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor... -
Beowulf: Revised Edition by Michael Swanton 9780719051463
RRP: £10.99£9.74New, up-to-date bibliography which should give this edition another twenty years of life.. Excellent, scholarly introduction which focusses on the values and social relevance of the poem.. Explanatory notes drawing on archaeological sources.. Prose... -
The Bridge by Hart Crane 9780871402257
RRP: £14.50£11.73Begun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge,... -
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava
RRP: £17.95£12.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999843819Author Roy DeCaravaFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David ZwirnerWeight(grams) 220g -
The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley
RRP: £10.00£7.12*AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*'I can't bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty.' So wrote Maria... -
West-Eastern Divan by Johanne Wolfgangs Von Goethe
RRP: £16.99£12.94In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian... -
The Truth of You: Poetry About Love, Life, Joy, and Sadness by Iain S. Thomas
RRP: £9.99£6.41This is the truth of you.Because you are all I see.Because you are all I breathe.Because when I cannot find you, I am lost.Because when I'm with you, I am found.Because you have the fire of the universe in you, and sometimes you forget.So this book is... -
The Motorway Service Station as a Destination in Its Own Right by Simon Armitage 9781906613303
RRP: £5.00£3.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906613303Author Simon ArmitagePage Count 24Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 50g -
Living in Language: International reflections for the practising poet: 2024 by Erica Hesketh 9781739894856
RRP: £15.00£10.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739894856Author Erica HeskethFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre -
The Divine Comedy: I. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £18.49£13.97An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair... -
Virgil: Eclogues by Virgil
RRP: £26.99£23.44Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral into an Italian setting, blending details from the life... -
Burgerz by Travis Alabanza
RRP: £11.99£11.02Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers. A burger was thrown at Travis Alabanza on Waterloo Bridge in 2016. From this experience they have created a poetic, passionate performance piece based around the 'burger': the texture, and taste of being... -
Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach and Other Poems by James Joyce
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486850757Author James JoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm)... -
Poems That Touch the Heart by A.L. Alexander
RRP: £23.00£16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385044011Author A.L. AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
The Art of the Sonnet by Stephen Burt 9780674061804
RRP: £22.95£18.38Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante Gabriel... -
Queer Life, Queer Love: The Second Anthology by Julia Bell
RRP: £9.99£6.80The anthology will be published in May 2023, just ahead of Pride. Containing 30 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of Queer writing today. Entry is open to... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9780812970067
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970067Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
The Edwin Morgan Twenties: Scotland by Edwin Morgan 9781846975448
RRP: £5.00£4.35Introduced by Liz Lochhead, in this selection we journey round Scotland in 'Canedolia', study its history in 'Picts', home in on Morgan's own city of Glasgow in 'Glasgow Sonnet v', imagine the country's future in 'The Coin'.About the AuthorEdwin Morgan... -
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £9.99£6.75National Book Award for Poetry, 1973 Beginning with "long poem of these States," The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated... -
Green Noise by Jean Sprackland
RRP: £13.00£7.52Jean Sprackland is celebrated for her tactile, transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly. Her new collection is tuned to new and deeper frequencies. 'Green noise' is the mid-frequency component of white... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9781857150858
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Aeneid is a journey of Aeneas, a survivor of the siege of Troy. The themes within this classic work include piety, respect, destiny, war and peace. The city of Rome and its empire, its formation, and its history is a central character among others -... -
Rilke, a Soul History: In the Image of Orpheus by Daniel Polikoff 9781888602524
£36.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888602524Author Daniel PolikoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 1g -
Selected Poetry by William Wordsworth
RRP: £7.99£5.79Wordsworth (1770-1850) is one of the most important and enduringly popular of all the English poets. Wordsworth's verse declares a belief in the power of poetry to teach by appealing to the imagination and to the `grand elementary principle of... -
Nine of Diamonds: Surroial Mordantless by MacGillivray
RRP: £9.95£6.78The Nine of Diamonds: Surroial Mordantless is a book in nine parts constructed to play the Butcher - the Duke of Cumberland - in a Gaelic interpretation of the ghost gamble. Given the command on the back of a nine of diamonds - the Curse of Scotland -... -
Certain Magical Acts by Alice Notley 9780143108160
RRP: £26.00£18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143108160Author Alice NotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 155mm *... -
Love Leans over the Table by Rosie Jackson
RRP: £10.99£7.64Passionate and affirming, the poems in 'Love Leans over the Table' have at their heart an intense hunger for life, not only this side of death but after. Celebrating both human and divine love, they trace a path from personal loss to spiritual struggle... -
Collected Film Poetry by Tony Harrison
RRP: £20.00£13.86Containing: Arctic Paradise (previously unpublished), Loving Memory (The Muffled Bells, Mimmo Perrella Non e Piu, Cheating the Void, Letters in the Rock), The Blasphemers' Banquet, The Gaze of the Gorgon, Black Daisies for the Bride, A Maybe Day in... -
From Grief to God: A Journey of Discovery or How I Found Myself by Gareth W Phillips 9781504393065
RRP: £14.95£11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504393065Author Gareth W PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Mabinogi by Matthew Francis
RRP: £12.99£8.56Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 'Here at the turn of the leaf a horseman is ridingthrough the space between one world and another . . .' The Mabinogi is the Welsh national epic, a collection of prose tales of war and... -
I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail by Ram Singh Urveti 9789380340142
RRP: £10.99£7.00This well-known folk poem from the 17th century is a form of trick verse. Included in classic anthologies of children's poetry, the verse appears nonsensical at first sight, but given a break in the middle of each line, begins to make perfect sense. At... -
[To] the Last [Be] Human by Jorie Graham 9781800172937
RRP: £19.99£14.44A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Autumn 2022. [To] The Last [Be] Human collects four extraordinary poetry books-Sea Change, PLACE, fast, and Runaway-by Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. From the introduction by Robert Macfarlane: The... -
Tristia: Vol 6 by Ovid
RRP: £24.95£23.23The poet in exile.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor... -
Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Philip Larkin 9780571335596
RRP: £40.00£29.39Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a... -
The Divine Comedy, III. Paradiso, Vol. III. Part 2: Commentary by Dante 9780691019130
RRP: £55.00£42.91Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Paradiso. This volume consists of the prose translation of... -
Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limon
RRP: £11.99£8.00The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from...